Prussia, State. A Grand Cross Of The Iron Cross 1870 Flag Box Appliqué GTRexclude and a West Wall Service

and a West Wall Service Medal

HEMSLEY LTD" on the reverse

Prisoner of War number E131

2nd Canadian Corps for two months (March to May 1945)

Prussia, State. A Grand Cross Of The Iron Cross 1870 Flag Box Appliqué GTRexclude and a West Wall ServiceThis is an interesting and certainly unique piece a Prussian Grand Cross of the Iron Cross 1870 (Grokreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes 1870) to be fastened onto the box in which the Prussian flag was stored. It is in the shape of a silver cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed border; the obverse with a raised central W, with the original institution date 1870 in raised numbering on the lower arm, and the